diff --git a/pkgs/tools/X11/bgs/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/X11/bgs/default.nix
index c305583a3f9f..488c97ad36b5 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/X11/bgs/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/X11/bgs/default.nix
@@ -1,15 +1,17 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl, libX11, libXinerama, imlib2}:
+{stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, libX11, libXinerama, imlib2}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   name = "bgs-${version}";
-  version = "0.7.1";
+  version = "0.8";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "https://github.com/Gottox/bgs/archive/v${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "1kgm139daz4xrymx11whbmwzsnps9yn4g34a17s34ihi0raf70w8";
+    sha256 = "1rw9ingkkpvvr2dixx126ziim67a54r8k49918h1mbph0fjj08n5";
   };
 
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
+
   buildInputs = [ libX11 libXinerama imlib2 ];
 
   preConfigure = ''sed -i "s@PREFIX = /usr/local@PREFIX = $out@g" config.mk'';